La Dispute - Bury Your Flame lyrics
[La Dispute - Bury Your Flame lyrics]
Oh, we could blame it on our hands
They lifted the drink to our
Mouths so we drank it
Or we could blame it on our bodies they say
We like the way we feel when we get touched
You've got your fingers snared in my veins
I think it's time you pulled them out
And I don't care about the flesh it'll tear
It isn't flesh that I'm worried about
We held a match to keep our sight on the path
But the flame gave up and we lost it
And I've knelt for the last three years
Trying to find it back
With the blackened matchstick
Today I'm not afraid of failure
The past is a flower the future, the snow
I wasn't ever close to perfect
But, I never let you go
You let your doubt like a river lead
You on and on and on
And you will never get back
To save what you had hear me promise
I will bury your problems in me
So sleep soundly
I held your heart in my fingers
Now it's gone, it's gone
It's gone and you will never admit
That you bid the wind blow the flames out
And buried the coals in the sea
You tricked me
You came back and you brought floods
Wearing a necklace made of hearts that
You'd dragged through the mud
And I guess I wasn't quite sure
What to say to you but then I saw mine
Almost reached out to grab it said, darling
You're the only one on earth
I want to have it
But now I'm not so sure that was true
After the hell you put it through
But there was no sharp pain this time
Just the ghost of your presence compressing
My chest like a vine an unshakable absence
Like most of my insides crawled out
Of my mouth and went west but that's fine
We cast our hearts in plaster
We imagined our bodies were
Fashioned from stone
But they chipped at the brick and the mortar
We found out that we're only
Layers of skin hiding bone
And our bones are like chains
Old and rusted in the rain
They're going to snap when the weight shifts
You moved like a fire through the forest
Your hands were as red as
The skin on your lips
You'd been flirting with distance, princess
I tasted it's spit in your kiss
Oh mistress, know
Today I will bury the flames of your failure
The past is a liar the future, a whore
I'll lay your bones into the earth and
You will haunt my head no more
Oh, we could blame it on our hands
Oh, we could blame it on our hands
But it was our mouths that
Opened up to swallow
(Oh, we could blame it on our hands)
And our heads that commanded us drink
But as I buried your flames in the dirt
I watched the smoke pull your
Ghost from the grave
And I fear they'll only lay in wait
Until we are face to face again
Just when I said, I'm moving, I'm moving on
I felt them come to life again
And again and again and again
There are fires
That tear through valleys and
Make dust from grass there are fires
There are wires
Bound in blue light, they pull us to the past
There are wires we are tired
We should have known from the
Start that this wouldn't last we are tired
They lifted the drink to our
Mouths so we drank it
Or we could blame it on our bodies they say
We like the way we feel when we get touched
You've got your fingers snared in my veins
I think it's time you pulled them out
And I don't care about the flesh it'll tear
It isn't flesh that I'm worried about
We held a match to keep our sight on the path
But the flame gave up and we lost it
And I've knelt for the last three years
Trying to find it back
With the blackened matchstick
Today I'm not afraid of failure
The past is a flower the future, the snow
I wasn't ever close to perfect
But, I never let you go
You let your doubt like a river lead
You on and on and on
And you will never get back
To save what you had hear me promise
I will bury your problems in me
So sleep soundly
I held your heart in my fingers
Now it's gone, it's gone
It's gone and you will never admit
That you bid the wind blow the flames out
And buried the coals in the sea
You tricked me
You came back and you brought floods
Wearing a necklace made of hearts that
You'd dragged through the mud
And I guess I wasn't quite sure
What to say to you but then I saw mine
Almost reached out to grab it said, darling
You're the only one on earth
I want to have it
But now I'm not so sure that was true
After the hell you put it through
But there was no sharp pain this time
Just the ghost of your presence compressing
My chest like a vine an unshakable absence
Like most of my insides crawled out
Of my mouth and went west but that's fine
We cast our hearts in plaster
We imagined our bodies were
Fashioned from stone
But they chipped at the brick and the mortar
We found out that we're only
Layers of skin hiding bone
And our bones are like chains
Old and rusted in the rain
They're going to snap when the weight shifts
You moved like a fire through the forest
Your hands were as red as
The skin on your lips
You'd been flirting with distance, princess
I tasted it's spit in your kiss
Oh mistress, know
Today I will bury the flames of your failure
The past is a liar the future, a whore
I'll lay your bones into the earth and
You will haunt my head no more
Oh, we could blame it on our hands
Oh, we could blame it on our hands
But it was our mouths that
Opened up to swallow
(Oh, we could blame it on our hands)
And our heads that commanded us drink
But as I buried your flames in the dirt
I watched the smoke pull your
Ghost from the grave
And I fear they'll only lay in wait
Until we are face to face again
Just when I said, I'm moving, I'm moving on
I felt them come to life again
And again and again and again
There are fires
That tear through valleys and
Make dust from grass there are fires
There are wires
Bound in blue light, they pull us to the past
There are wires we are tired
We should have known from the
Start that this wouldn't last we are tired